Music: Boston's Boyar

In the first half of the 19th Century, when such men as Philosopher
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Preacher Theodore Parker and Pundit Bronson Alcott
were generating a whole kaleidoscope of intellectual sparks, Boston
was in truth the cultural powerhouse of the U.S. Since then Boston's
cultural graph has shown, a decline. Her writers and painters, once the
most pioneering, are now for the most part complacent. But to the Back
Bay Brahmins Boston's past glories are still present, her old-fashioned
way of life still sacredly up-to-date.